Jun 6, 2022
We are looking for a Bus Transport Procurement Manager to join the Operated Bus team which is in charge of sourcing and negotiating over 100m€ worth of transportation contracts in France. In this role you will grow your skills in negotiation, procurement and strategic thinking. You will manage multiple internal and external stakeholders, and embrace a wide scope of tasks from ground negotiations, structured RFPs to strategic thinking. As such, the role requires a sharp, analytical mind, entrepreneurial spirit, interpersonal skills, and strong commitment. 🌍 Relocation package and visa sponsorship to welcome you wherever you are currently based.
Build and manage long-lasting relations with bus partners and continuously nurture existing partnerships with bus operators
Source new partners by contacting operators, presenting our business model and negotiating contracts
Improve profitability of the lines by collaborating with network planning and bus partners to better understand their cost structure and means to decrease end-to-end costs
Participate to best-in-class RFI / RFP campaigns and apply our procurement playbook to reach our ambitious sourcing targets at the best costs and quality balance
Your qualifications
You have 3-4 years of experience in procurement and business development roles, preferably related to the transport industry
You have strong negotiation skills, operational agility and solution-driven mindset
You are able to work with data to define priorities, derive actionable insights and present results
You have excellent communication skills, you’re humble and enjoy sharing & learning from others
You embrace change, are able to take a step back, prioritize, and focus on added-value tasks
You have a results-driven and impact-oriented mindset
You are fluent in English & French
Nice to have: Fluency in Spanish/Italian/German
If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, tell us why you’d still be a great fit for this role in your application!
🌎 An international environment: over 35 nationalities across 7 countries: Brazil, France, Germany, Poland, Russia, Spain, Ukraine
💡 Opportunities to learn: 360 onboarding weeks, weekly team-all BlaBlaTalks to learn about what other teams are up to, International Weeks to mingle with other offices, regular Q&A sessions with our leadership, honest discussions about our company KPIs, ‘Fail, Learn, Succeed’ moments where we destigmatize and share moments of failure with others.
🚀 Innovation: Coding Nights to pitch ideas outside our roadmap and make development dreams come true, weekly Product & Tech Demos and blogs to share engineering stories, access to top conferences across Europe.
🌱 Impact: building a product that has a real impact on society and the environment, and sharing an office culture that prioritizes low-waste and eco-friendly practices.
💜 People-first: wind down from work at our BlaBlaShows, BlaBlaBreak retreats, weekly breakfasts and afterworks (when the sanitary conditions permit it) or meme battles on Slack.
🧭 Shared company principles that guide us in our everyday decision-making and bring us closer to our goal. Find out more about our BlaBlaPrinciples.
Your future benefits
🏡 Tailor-made remote policy: from 2 days per week to full remote (to be discussed with the Talent Acquisition Manager during the first call).
💰 A fair and competitive salary package
🚀Employee Stock Ownership plan
🎈Holidays: 10 days off in addition to the legal 25 days
🌍 Relocation package and visa sponsorship to welcome you wherever you are currently based
👶 Parental policy
🎒 Trainings and career development programs
🚗Free carpooling & 🚌 bus-rides wherever whenever
Interested in joining the ride? Here is our hiring journey:
a 20-min online analytical test to evaluate your analytical skills
a 45-min video-call with Sabrina Angersbach, one of our Talent Acquisition Managers to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions
a 45-min video-call with our Procurement Manager, Jonas Bisagni, who leads the procurement processes
a 60-min “Sourcing Strategy” Case study (which you will be given 1 week to prepare for) to present to Jonas and Louis Sachot, Head of Network Planning, to assess your sourcing strategy and negotiation skills
a 45-min video-call with our Head Operations, Aurélien Gandois to have a discussion around BlaBlaCar’s culture and mindset